Skyfire v0.85 supposedly available for worldwide consumption
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 26th 2008 4:33AM
posted Nov 26th 2008 4:33AM
posted Nov 26th 2008 4:33AM
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Works very nicely on my new Sprint Touch Pro, and since Skyfire servers handle the bulk of the work, i can watch Family Guy while i wait for for my oft late co-worker, without any repressed feelings
Hi Darren,
Peachy it is! I have now successfully downloaded and installed Skyfire without authentication on both a Nokia N95 & E71 here in the great land of Oz!
Let me tell you, Opera has its work cut out for it keeping up!
Cheers and thanks for the mention!
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Yep, confirmed to work from the Netherlands too :-) You have to point Pocket Internet Explorer to http://get.skyfire.com to get the cab though. Doesn't work with opera: you'll just get the desktop version of the page telling you to enter the URL on your mobile. They just make it easier for US (and UK and Canada) residents with the send-link-to-your-phone thing, but they don't even want to prevent others form using it! It says so on the download site:
"Although you might be able to use Skyfire outside the US, Canada and UK, our focus is providing the best user experience for our active countries. Using Skyfire outside these countries is at your own discretion."
I've been looking forward to this for a long time. Just installed it but when I try to run it it freezes at the "locating....." screen. Does anybody have some suggestions ?
I installed it the other day, but it seems to want to use edge/3g when I have a perfectly fine wi-fi connection available, and has a somewhat draconian privacy agreement :/
The speed shouldn't be too big of a factor considering that it's already compressed information. Wifi won't make it much faster than EDGE/3G when the bulk of the work is being done by servers.
Speed is not the issue, the lack of a decent data plan is :)
The lack of WVGA support for the Xperia X1, or the Touch HD is a major bummer, and I have no idea why it would be so difficult to implement...
Wow, just downloaded Skyfire for my HTC Fuze (aka Touch Pro) and it seems a bit faster downloading pages and can view Flash and stream videos which IE & Opera either can't or do a piss poor job doing.
Oh yeah, they also direct you to the full internet site and not default you to the crappy mobile site.
Anyone try this on there Black Berry Storm yet? or has anyone found a copy that works for the BB Storm?
I'm very happily using it in Australia. Works like a charm on my N95 and HTC Touch Pro.
i like skyfire i really do but there's one thing that bothers me. it has been happening with every version along the way and including this one - going to engadget mobile brings you to the page from about two days ago, cannot see any recent posts. anyone else notice that?
Not for me. I tried linking from engadget's main page and also typed in engadgetmobile manually in Skyfire and everything is current.
oh thanks, i wonder why that is. if i use opera mini or opera mobile from the same phone it brings me to the current posts, but skyfire has always been a few days behind for me, very weird.
When will Skyfire be available for those who do not use S60 or WinMo?
I love Skyfire, but I've been leaning more towards the Iris browser lately.
Skyfire works on WinMo and Symbian OS ONLY.
Skyfire needs to implement VGA resolution before WVGA at least in my personal situation, I wonder if Skyfire accepts donations hm..?
Works like a charm on my 1st generation Blackjack on AT&T. I watched an episode of LIFE from HULU website with waiting while my car was serviced last week. Nice!